Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? (Paperback, 1)

Part I: Introduction Introduction: the elusive leisure society About work, leisure, non-work time and the leisure society Part II: Pre-history and History The leisure society: pre-history, history, utopia Industrialisation, automation and the problem of work, rest and leisure: 1918-1939 Work-leisure relationships and mass leisure: 1945-1959 Futurism, post-industrialism and the leisure society The leisure society idea: 1960-1979 Unemployment, the leisure ethic and the end of work: 1980-1999 Part III: Analysis Economics, work and leisure and the leisure society The leisure society’s critics Part IV: The 21st Century Work-reduced futures for the 21st century The struggle for time. What next?